iPad & iPhone User - USA (2020-03)

SECURITY SPECIAL

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Obviously, the best defence against this sort of thing

is to have a different, strong, hard-to-guess password

for every single account you own. A good password

manager like 1Password, LastPass or Dashlane is a

key component in managing that (see page 61 for

our round-up of the best password managers).

But good passwords are not enough. Not a

month goes by without another report of millions of

passwords potentially compromised, and a computer

infected with a virus can simply watch the passwords

as you type them in. You need another layer of

protection. You need 2FA.

We’ve already told you how to enable 2FA on

your Apple account, but what about all your other

accounts? Those should be protected with just as

much care. Here’s how to get started.

Two-factor authentication is a

way to prove that you are the

owner of a particular account

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way to prove that you are the

owner of a particular account